Mental health in humanitarian and fragile settings

Advocacy and key messages

By UnicefMigrant, refugee, returnee and internally displaced children not only experience the direct and immediate impacts of COVID-19 and its socioeconomic...

By UNODCThis document shows parents or other caregivers in refugee settings how to help children take care of their mental health during COVID-19. It provides...

This document provides information on how adolescents can protect themselves from violence and ensure their ability to care for their sexual and reproductive...

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Guidance resources

This guidance presents action plans to promote and ensure mental health services during the covid-19 pandemic. (pages 12-13, 15)Produced by: UNLearn...

By WHOThis interim guidance addresses recommendations for refugee and migrants’ inclusion in national response plans as part of comprehensive efforts...

This guidance presents key mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) considerations in relation to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.Produced...

By IASCThis guidance document provides managers and coordinators of MHPSS programs with steps to adapt their services to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Page 26-28) More...

This Policy brief provides governments and stakeholders with practical guidance for an improved understanding of safe and inclusive access to services...

By UN Sustainable Development GroupChildren are not the face of this pandemic. But they risk being among its biggest victims. While they have thankfully...

Contextualized resources

A child in Argentina, doing his homework

By WHOThis blog looks at the approach Sudan took to provide mental health support despite the COVID-19 pandemic and an influx of refugees from Ethiopia.More...

By WHOThis document provides guidance on how to maintain essential healthcare and nutrition services during COVID-19 and highlights the importance of these...

By UNICEFCOVID-19 pandemic has hit Lebanon during a time of great instability, with adverse impact on not only the physical health but also mental health...

A young girl child in Yemen with face mask

By UNFPAThis article shows how UNFPA adapted their interventions to continue to provide mental health and psychosocial support to the Yemenis population...

adolescent mental health video

By WHO EMROThis document provides an overview of the COVID-19 response of the department for Mental Health and Substance Abuse of the Ministry of Health...

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